For the first few decades of my life, I think the overwhelming script / mode that I was in was, ‘no one can tell me what to do!’ Which was, at the time and place, a difficult position to take as a...
And now that I live where I live, where there are so many people like me: I recognize in it an interesting theme.
Almost all of my friends around my age, from all countries and backgrounds, who are super mobile and successful in international careers, were almost all, like me, staunchly middle class kids with parents who invested all their resources into education, who were good with technology and lived through a very specific time. (The people who grew up rich are their own thing)
We all kind of would up having similar lives, access to migration, similar types of jobs. I was recounting my friend group and I was like, wow, there is this similarity.. across culture, passports, languages, backgrounds.
I don’t even really know if that’s possible today. Hopefully, those of us who have won the globalization prizes can choose to do more meaningful things for the world than to work for companies that now clearly actively tries to destroy it.
Almost all of my friends around my age, from all countries and backgrounds, who are super mobile and successful in international careers, were almost all, like me, staunchly middle class kids with parents who invested all their resources into education, who were good with technology and lived through a very specific time. (The people who grew up rich are their own thing)
We all kind of would up having similar lives, access to migration, similar types of jobs. I was recounting my friend group and I was like, wow, there is this similarity.. across culture, passports, languages, backgrounds.
I don’t even really know if that’s possible today. Hopefully, those of us who have won the globalization prizes can choose to do more meaningful things for the world than to work for companies that now clearly actively tries to destroy it.